Chapter 368: Kongdong Past

"The disciple went to call the Uncle-Master Ancestor back, but... he still didn't see me."

An executive reported in a low voice. There was no sound in the room. He nodded again and retreated.

In the silence, the old man's hoarse voice sounded first: "I have actually long wondered how the highest-ranking ancestor of your sect could disappear like this without asking about affairs."

"... This means," after a long time, Shi Shaosheng said softly, "the things caused by the Sect Master himself will be solved by himself."

The courtyard had been completely cleared. Only a few people were left in the Law Enforcement Hall. A dim candle flame flickered in the room, but everyone was not within the range illuminated by the firelight.

People on duty couldn't remember the last time the entire 【Lianxin Pavilion】 arrived here. The pillars that were extremely difficult to see in the past were now gathered in the hall. Standing in the courtyard, one could see their majestic backs.

"Since the establishment of Kongdong, the scattering and lack of order of the sword techniques of various peaks has always been the lock choking the sect's progress." This old man, who was first identified by Wu Chou as having no suspicion, whispered, and those secret matters that were not spoken of were slowly spat out.

"Bai Junior Brother is a genius in another direction." The room was still silent, and the old man continued, "He has been overflowing with spiritual energy in swords since he was a child. Sometimes it was even close to evil. He almost never turned pages when learning swords. As long as someone could perform it for him, he would know."

"Some swords are the sun, some are birds, some are distant travels, some are seeking pills... They are too different. Of course, even so, the so-called 'all swords are connected', it is not impossible to merge three or four into one... But that is the sword of seventeen peaks." Shi Shaosheng said softly, "So the voice of giving up has never stopped."

"Later things were not very open to our four peaks." Shi Shaosheng recalled, "Those days he indeed met people we didn't recognize, and then began to guide the water, carve the mountain shape, and soak swords one by one inside... But all procedures were in line with the sect rules. We could also enter to observe, guessing it was a huge sword array, just wondering where he invited such an amazing array master."

Wu Chou said hoarsely: "Then I think, the back is the opportunity for the Huan Si Lou to enter."

"When several sword techniques poured into the body and mind in the same resonance, perhaps his genius-like spirituality indeed sensed a certain 'upper layer', which is why he walked so firmly for the next twenty years."

"The sages have made efforts generation after generation for this. In the Scripture Library, the 'Kongdong Sword Collection' organized by our sect has lasted two hundred years, but this work has not been completed, but is becoming increasingly heavy."

"Ten years later, we knew that it was 【Sword Belly Mountain】."

So this was a "great matter of the sect". Even if it was just to constitute the middle five peaks as a whole, even if it was just always doing it, Kongdong had a root vein connecting the disciples of the hundred-li sect together.

"Bai Junior Brother indeed is not a generation of heavy mystery. He really found a method to gather the sword sense of seventeen peaks." Shi Shaosheng looked at the few, "【Calling Sword Chapter】, comes from his hand."

"This is the natural chasm he encountered twenty years ago."

"Master and disciple faced each other with swords in the Lianxin Pavilion, Xiao Tingshu lowered his head and stood behind Bai Junior Brother." Shi Shaosheng recalled that scene.

"But deep understanding of one's own sword technique is an absolutely correct work. Standing on the shoulders of predecessors, the sword techniques of various peaks have also been constantly corrected and improved." Shi Shaosheng paused, "But wanting to make it a system is indeed a feat of ascending to heaven."

"He aggressively believed that Kongdong swords could of course be integrated into one—not on which day after years of work, but at that time." Shi Shaosheng said, "Because he felt that reconstructing the sword technique itself was the wrong path, and what should really be done was to aggregate sword sense."

Pei Ye didn't understand the old man's reference for a moment. He was still thinking about the first half of the sentence—to find commonality from different things at the current level, naturally, it was to trace back to the upper level. This predecessor should be a clear view.

The old man drank tea, and the room temporarily fell into silence.

"But in fact, after that time, he fell into a heavy blow."

"Later, Uncle-Master Ji compromised."

"... Perhaps, that was more than twenty years ago." Shi Shaosheng sighed lightly.

Yes, if the Sect Master treated it as a game to be manipulated at will, it would dissolve the seriousness of the predecessors who had worked hard one after another... and the Kongdong peaks would lose their centripetal feeling.

"Bai Junior Brother wanted to walk such a path."

Shi Shaosheng recalled: "I had a good relationship with him at that time, and he often came to me to pour out his heart. He said that it was not something that could be completed by manpower."

Shi Shaosheng was silent for a while.

"Legend has it that putting several completely different jades in the same box, they will fuse into one after how many ten thousand years... Similarly, it needs these swords to exist in resonance for a long time, in order to 'precipitate' heavenly quality and complete 'fusion'."

"Uncle-Master Ji was the previous Sect Master, and also the most brilliant one in many years." Shi Shaosheng continued, "He was obsessed with this path, and indeed pushed the 'Sword Collection' forward a great step, so he handed over the Sect Master position early and retired to study."

"Everyone should still remember the tight and oppressive middle five peaks at that time." The old man sighed lightly, "Uncle-Master Ji came out of the mountain again to remove Bai Junior Brother's Sect Master position, and Bai Junior Brother had always been strong and extreme in temperament. He didn't want to walk this path himself, but must take Kongdong to walk this path."

"So the conflict happened at this time. After Bai Junior Brother succeeded, he believed that the 'Sword Collection' could not rely on the analysis and reconstruction of the thread-by-thread analysis." Shi Shaosheng was the oldest in the room, looking up slightly to recall that sharp time.

"Because the sword is different from other weapons. It possesses a unique heavenly quality that still exists after stripping everything away. Putting aside the 'form' of the sword move and combining this heavenly quality into one is the correct path—and this path has even been verified." Shi Shaosheng paused slightly, "Because we all know that its end is in this world."

"Dai Zhongxuan, the Master of Tianmen Peak ninety-seven years ago, the person whose name was deleted by the 'Sword Collection'."

"The successor was Bai Tianqu Junior Brother."

"..."

"This kind of path can only stay on the mouth. Except for fame and reputation, it is useless. Later, this peak master indeed began to practice his 'spiritual enlightenment' path. He put many sword classics in front of him every day, and then called disciples of various peaks to perform swords in front of him, and slept for a day."

"So when he found a person who walked the side path from the sages, he was like seeing a soulmate."

"They studied and dismantled every sword technique, seeking to solve it into the most basic composition—a most basic 'Three-Story Sword', we have seventy-four corresponding annotations. Other peaks' sword techniques don't need to be mentioned, and the profound and difficult ones are common."

After seeing the Cuiyu Jianmen and the Qijiao Cave, he already understood that martial arts were the foundation of the sect. Jianmen Jianmen, if the sword didn't have the necessity of combining, then the Kongdong peaks would have no reason to gather.

Of course it couldn't be given up, Pei Ye thought.

"Kongdong can raise a peak master who is not serious, but cannot accept the Sect Master treating the 'Sword Collection' as a child's play."

"This is of course nonsense that only those who have learned swords shallowly will believe."

"But disciples of various peaks cannot always perform swords in the 【Calling Sword Chapter】, and as the main body that accepts and guides sword sense, he of course cannot guarantee his correctness—there is no program for reference to organize these sword methods."

"Two 【Yueque】 listed on the Crane Ranking fought, and Kongdong couldn't bear such damage. Uncle-Master Ji retired completely, still going to continue the path of predecessors, letting Bai Junior Brother change the direction of the 'Sword Collection'."

"That was the same year, Uncle-Master Ji came out of the mountain for the first time in ten years. I don't know what the master and disciple talked about, but looking back later, they didn't make up." Shi Shaosheng said in a low voice, "Bai Junior Brother showed a temperament completely different from that of Dai Zhongxuan's disciple again. No one doubted the Sect Master's worship and seriousness toward the 'Sword Collection' anymore."

"—He handed over the Sect Master affairs to Xiao Tingshu, carried the coffin into the mountain himself, and went into a dead seclusion in the depths of Sword Belly Mountain."